Six Defendants were Sentenced to Hang for the Murder of a Malaysian Prosecutor

News24xx.com - Malaysian court sentenced death to six defendants in the case of the murder of Deputy General Prosecutor (Prosecutor), Anthony Kevin Morais.

The six defendants - Army pathologists, Colonel Dr. R. Kunaseegaran (55), R. Dinishwaran (26), AK Thinesh Kumar (25), M. Vishwanath (28), S. Nimalan (25) and S. Ravi Chandaran (47) - found guilty of the murder of Morais five years ago.

The sentence of hanging by the High Court on Friday (10/7) was welcomed with relief by the Morais family. The prosecutor's brother, Richard Morais, said he was happy with the decision and said that the prosecution team had done a great job in this case.

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Some family members of the defendant cried when the decision was announced. Meanwhile, the defendants appeared calm before they were chained together and taken out of the courtroom after the trial.

On September 4, 2015, Morais was abducted by a number of men. About two weeks later, his body was found to have been cemented in a used barrel or drum of gasoline and dumped at the bottom of a swamp near the Klang River, Selangor. Morais (55) was last seen at his condo in Kuala Lumpur on 4 September 2015. A crane is needed to lift a barrel of cement dumped into the swamp.

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According to the editor of the Sarawak Report media, Clare Rewcastle Brown, Morais was the prosecutor tasked with investigating former Prime Minister Najib Razak for misusing 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) funds. However, Malaysia's anti-corruption body, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has denied this, saying that Morais was handling another case involving a military colonel suspected of falsifying claims.